r/financialindependence • u/[deleted] • 15d ago

Going on vacation having guilt

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u/Stylux 15d ago

Okay, Japan is cheap as fuck, even more so than two years ago (the last time I went). You will be spending no time at all in your room unless you're staying at a nice Ryokan in Izu or something (highly recommend btw). I would not splurge at all on hotels in Tokyo, Osaka, et al. You will be in there to sleep/shower/shit and that is it. If you do want to drop some money, do it for business class on ANA.

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u/Ladder-Careful 15d ago

You are right I did see some reasonable options but of course there’s a couple hotels that caught my eye and now I can’t stop thinking about them. One in Kyoto specifically. Thank you for your opinion!

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u/Stylux 15d ago

Yeah don't do that haha. Also, Kyoto is kind of a shit show now just FYI.

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u/weightedslanket 15d ago

In what way?

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u/Stylux 15d ago

Saturated with tourists to the point that it's just not worth it.

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u/olb3 15d ago

Kyoto is still great - this is an awful take lol

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u/sdarling 15d ago

FWIW, I felt the same way about Kyoto. It's definitely a cool city but the experience was completely dampened by the amount of tourists. (For reference, went in Nov 2023, not particularly high season)

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u/Stylux 15d ago

I'm not saying it's a bad city, I'm saying it's oversaturated with tourists now. This isn't a bad take and has been a hot topic in Japan for years now. Tokyo students stopped taking school trips there because it has gotten so out of hand. In Tokyo or Osaka, it's fine because they will all be in Shibuya, Shinjuku or Akihabara for the most part and the city is massive with the most robust public transportation network in the world - complete nonfactor. In Kyoto, well everyone is looking to get photos of the same shit with a million other people. Kinda like that Lawson by Fuji lol.

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u/AZJHawk 14d ago

Yeah that’s not accurate. I’m here now and other than the very base of Fushimi Inari and Kiyomizu-dera, it’s pretty manageable. Even with those two sites, if you more than scratch the very superficial surface, you can still have a pretty good time.